Elleke Dresen has been working as an abdominal and oncological radiologist at the University Hospitals Leuven since 2014, mainly focusing on pelvic MRI and whole-body diffusion-weighted MRI, aiming for optimization of treatment planning and assessment of treatment response. Her dissertation was addressed to the multidisciplinary approach to locally advanced and recurrent rectal cancer, with Prof. Regina Beets-Tan as promotor. She practises all aspects of abdominal radiology, including MRI, CT, PET/CT, ultrasound, fluoroscopy and nonvascular abdominal interventions. She is an active member of the oncological multidisciplinary team meetings, especially concerning gastro-intestinal, colorectal and gynaecological cancer patients. Since October 2017 she is partly employed as an assistant professor at KU Leuven. She is involved in the education of students, interns and residents. Her current research addresses oncological imaging, with a special focus on rectal cancer imaging and whole-body diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in patients with gastro-intestinal, colorectal and gynaecological cancer with the aim of optimization of treatment planning and assessment of treatment response. She received a KOTK grant for the AIM project: “Development of an AI-driven quantitative algorithm for whole-body diffusion-weighted MRI to improve staging and prognostication of invasive lobular breast cancer”. She is co-leader of the Imaging Working Group of the European Lobular Breast Cancer Consortium (ELBCC) and promotor and co-promotor of several research projects in oncological imaging. Furthermore, she is an invited speaker at many international multidisciplinary congresses and a faculty member of the annual ESGAR workshop “MR imaging of rectal cancer” and annual Peritoneal Metastases workshops.